files in gray

Some of the files on my C drive appear in the Explorer of Windows XP as pale or "grayed out". I can open them, but I can't see all of them in their use of MS Office 2010. What is going on?

A gray folder appears usually when a file is 'hidden' and you have enabled the option to show files and folders hidden in Folder Options.  Not being is not able to view the content of this file is most likely a permissions problem.  The solution to this depends on if you have XP Home or XP Pro.

If you have XP Pro:
"How to disable the file sharing simple and how to set permissions on a shared folder in Windows XP"
  <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307874 >

If you have XP Home Edition, you can start safe mode (press F8 at startup) and log in as administrator to access the 'Security' tab or, Alternatively, use the CACLS command from a command prompt window (start-> Run-> "cmd").

HTH,
JW

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